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Ark Invest bought $39.4 million worth of Robinhood shares on Wednesday, while selling $6.1 million of its own spot bitcoin ETF.Robinhood’s stock closed down 13.2% after the company reported weaker first-quarter earnings the previous day.

Tether has proposed that Twenty One Capital, a bitcoin treasury venture, merge with Strike and Elektron Energy.Twenty One Capital’s shares jumped 6.6% in after-hours trading on Wednesday.

Crypto ranked as the most-muted topic on X, ahead of politics, sports, and business.X’s snooze feature lets Premium users hide unwanted topics from For You feeds for 24 hours.AI-generated spam and InfoFi posting likely drove more users to mute crypto content.

South Korean prosecutors have sought a 20-year prison term for Delio CEO Jeong Sang-ho over alleged embezzlement of about 250 billion won from nearly 2800 users.Authorities told the Seoul Southern District Court that Delio halted withdrawals in June 2023 after offering up to 10.7% APR, with prosecutors accusing Jeong of deceptive promotion and misconduct.Victims have called for strict punishment while the defense has said it will compensate users if acquitted, with the court set to deliver its ruling on July 16.

Hashed has received ADGM approval allowing it to advise on investments, manage assets, and operate funds under a regulated framework.The firm said the license will help connect Middle Eastern institutional capital with global founders and markets.

A split 8-4 vote initially spooked markets, creating uncertainty around the Federal Reserve’s future policy moves.Kevin Warsh cleared a key Senate Banking Committee vote, advancing his nomination for Fed chair earlier today.

Bitcoin is trading at $75,834 on April 29, down 0.67% on the session, as a daily MACD bearish crossover confirms momentum is shifting.Price has pulled back from the ascending channel’s upper boundary and is now pressing the SMA 20 at $75,685 as immediate support.If the SMA 20 fails, the next floor sits at the SMA 50 near $72,082; a confirmed close above $80,000 invalidates the bearish setup.

Securitize and Computershare, the world’s largest transfer agent, are teaming up so that companies can issue equities onchain.“Issuers can now add Issuer-Sponsored Tokens (ISTs) alongside traditional shares, including DRS, without changing their existing capital structure,” Securitize said.The tokens are not “derivatives or wrappers,” the company said.

Blanche said the DOJ has “fundamentally changed the game” and that developers who are not knowingly helping users commit crimes are not going to be investigated or charged, while noting that laundering money or violating sanctions remains criminal regardless of whether the actor is a coder.Patel told the audience that the FBI’s focus has shifted toward crypto fraud networks including pig-butchering scam centers tied to foreign adversaries, with plans to travel to Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand this summer to conduct related enforcement work.Both Blanche and Patel appeared via videoconference rather than in person because they were needed in Washington DC after an assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night.

Paul Tudor Jones described bitcoin as an optimal inflation hedge, citing its finite supply and decentralized network.However, the hedge fund manager did acknowledge concerns surrounding potential cyber warfare and quantum computing risks.

Bitcoin was trading around $77,479 on Wednesday ahead of the Fed decision, after U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs posted a second straight day of outflows.Analysts say the market is less focused on today’s rate hold itself than on whether Chairman Jerome Powell reopens the door to a more durable “higher-for-longer” regime.

Prediction market trading volume reached $25.7 billion in March, a 10.6% increase from February, according to a joint report from Polymarket and Bitget Wallet.The report said 82.3% of users traded under $10,000, while crypto accounted for nearly 40% of activity among new users.

Thom Tillis, a swing GOP vote on the Senate Banking Committee, says his colleagues should take up a months-delayed vote on the crypto bill.

Wednesday's FOMC meeting was expected to be Jerome Powell’s last as Federal Reserve chair.

Senator Thom Tillis wants the Clarity Act moved into Senate Banking’s markup stage after the May recess.Tillis says there is “significant consensus” on the bill and promises to release stablecoin yield text 4–5 days before a hearing.He also backs Senator Cynthia Lummis’ framework on limiting the use of 1960-era criminal laws against software developers.

Lummis said the House passed the CLARITY Act, the Senate Agriculture Committee cleared it, and the White House supports it, a tri-branch alignment she described as unusual and fragile in a midterm election year.The bill would permanently convert the March 2026 joint SEC-CFTC commodity classification of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP into federal statute, removing the risk of a future regulatory reversal under a different administration.Lummis said key provisions are almost 99% resolved and the earliest possible markup is the week of May 11, after the Senate returns from its upcoming weeklong recess.